Bush and Chirac Break Any Tension With a Joke About Food (NYTimes)

[frank frankly]

Dear New York Times: You are Pravda on the Hudson. Fuck you.

Notice the word in bold. Notice it. Try not to scream.

I hate the New York Times. Bill Keller, you must be a deeply planted neocon or something equally antithetical to democracy and free press.

Bill Keller, go fuck yourself. If you belive in Hell, then GO THERE.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/10/international/europe/09CND-PREX.html?hp=&pagewanted=print&position=

June 10, 2004
Bush and Chirac Break Any Tension With a Joke About Food
By TERENCE NEILAN

he two world leaders looked like and proclaimed themselves friends today, with hardly a hint of the deep differences that divided them over the invasion of Iraq last year.

President Bush did look a little restless at times, repeatedly tapping a foot on the floor as President Jacques Chirac of France spoke at the eight-nation summit meeting in Sea Island, Ga. But any tensions evaporated as Mr. Chirac paid his fellow leader what any Frenchman would consider the ultimate compliment: the food served at the three-day gathering was "certainly on a par" with French cuisine.

Mr. Bush, who began chuckling even before the comment was translated, interjected, "He particularly liked the cheeseburger he had yesterday!"

Mr. Chirac immediately responded by giving the thumbs-up sign, and exclaiming, in English, "It was excellent!"

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Bush is like a retarded gradeschooler on a playdate

It is DISGUSTING.

"He liked his cheeseburger!" proclaimed the Very Special President.

"And we ratfucked Haiti together!" sang the weary French Imperialist who really liked his previos oil contracts with Saddam Hussein.

[frank frankly]

1. next part of the article. ALL the problems are gone!!! thank you, NYTimes!

<snip>

On more weighty matters, Mr. Bush said the two had discussed NATO's role in Iraq, and that he had assured Mr. Chirac that they would consult closely.

"We had our differences in the past, but we're friends, and friends are able to discuss the future," Mr. Bush said.

President Bush made a plea on Wednesday for a continued, even expanded, NATO presence in Iraq. At that time, Mr. Chirac said he saw no "mission" that would warrant his sending French troops there, a position that he has long maintained with President Gerhard Schröder of Germany.

Today, at a session arranged for photographers covering the meeting of leaders from the world's eight leading industrial and military powers, Mr. Chirac made no mention of the NATO issue.

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2. the last wretched exerpt.

<snip>

But he congratulated Mr. Bush, host of the meeting, on the way it had been organized, calling it a success.

"We've just reviewed some with our colleagues from the Middle East yesterday; we'll be doing so with our colleagues from Africa today," Mr. Chirac said. "And this gave us an opportunity of reviewing the major areas of concerns for today's world, to better understand each other and also to prove our efforts for peace, development and human rights."

In a joint statement, the Group of 8 leaders urged Sudan's government to immediately disarm Arab militias and other groups waging a campaign of looting, burning and rape in the remote western Darfur region of Sudan.

The leaders said they looked to the United Nations to lead an international effort to avert "a major disaster" in Darfur, where about one million people have been displaced in what aid officials call one of the world's worst refugee crises.

President Bush is to hold a news conference at 4 p.m. today, followed at 4:45 p.m. by the British prime minister, Tony Blair, the administration's closest ally in the Iraq occupation. Fifteen minutes, later Mr. Chirac will address reporters.

[tandot]

3. of course Chirac would give the thumps up...

as long as he is in America ... he doesn't want to end up in Guantanomo

[blackmoonlillith]

4. Agreed...

What the hell happened to the NYT? I hope after Kerry wins the elections we can reverse this trend of the right wingers taking over the media, especially in the cases of NPR, PBS, and the NYT.

[JustFiveMoreMinutes]

5. And how were the "Freedom" fries?

Gotta have fries with a burger!

[frank frankly]

6. bill keller, how does it feel to be a Nazi?

is it like a tightness in the chest?

This really is an amazing piece of work. superb propaganda.

"You can put lipstick on a pig!" exclaimed TERENCE NEILAN.

"If you call it a pig again, it'll be the last time!" snarled Bill Keller as he knocked back another scotch and soda. "We're putting lipstick on Tyra Fucking Banks! Remember that."

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7. kicked and edited with new title

this one really blew my mind. ouch.